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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="elibrary">75504</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Magazine of Civil Engineering</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Magazine of Civil Engineering</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2712-8172</issn>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">7</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.34910/MCE.140.7</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Diverging flow in Y-junctions: laminar, transitional and turbulent</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Diverging flow in Y-junctions: laminar, transitional and turbulent</trans-title>
        </trans-title-group>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-5049-8888</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Lemanov</surname>
            <given-names>Vadim</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>lemanov@itp.nsc.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Fedorenko</surname>
            <given-names>Viktor</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>vitya.fedorenko.335@mail.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Sharov</surname>
            <given-names>Konstantin</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>sharov@itp.nsc.ru</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Kutateladze Institute of Thermal Physics</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-26">
        <day>26</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <issue-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">140</issue-id>
      <fpage>14007</fpage>
      <lpage>14007</lpage>
      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>This investigation is aimed at determining flow regimes in Y-junctions with flow division. Air velocity and velocity pulsations are measured using a hot-wire anemometer in a wide range of Reynolds numbers Re = 400–6000. A junction with diameter d = 6 mm is chosen as the object of study for the inlet and two outlet channels: a symmetrical arrangement of the outlet channels with an angle of 50 º between them. A long tube with diameter d = 6 mm and length l/d = 333 is connected to the junction inlet. Two techniques of the flow regime diagnostics have been developed. For the inlet channel of the junction, the critical Reynolds number is Re = 2000 (puff-type vortex structures appear for the first time). For two outlet channels, a significant increase in velocity pulsations occurs at lower Reynolds numbers Re = 1640–1660. By analogy with diagnostics of the flow movement in a round tube, the following classification of flow regimes in a junction is proposed: laminar flow at Re &lt; 1640–1660, transitional flow at Re = 1660–2800, and turbulent flow at Re &gt; 3000. The obtained data can be used to clarify the range of data for laminar, transitional, and turbulent flow regimes in round Y-junctions with flow division.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <kwd>Y-junctions</kwd>
        <kwd>diverging flow</kwd>
        <kwd>hydraulic resistance</kwd>
        <kwd>laminar-turbulent transition</kwd>
        <kwd>critical Reynolds number</kwd>
        <kwd>velocity fluctuation</kwd>
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